The All Things Flash Thread.

[KillerMcQueen]

I wouldn't exactly call Captain Boomerang his arch nemesis. Him along with Weather Wizard and Mirror Master might be a nice mix. In saying that it wouldn't surprise me if they don't use traditional Flash villains in his movie.

Yeah, I wouldn't even put Boomerang in the top 10 as far as being in the running for Barry's worst enemy goes, Barry's arch-enemy will always be Reverse Flash or (arguably) Captain Cold.

 

[UltimateMarvel]

I think Warner will release a full look at the Justice League next monday. Considering that every DCEU movie gets a detailed picture when it starts shooting. Here are some examples:

Spoiler

 

[ManWithNoName18]

Zack Snyder on the Flash, and straight up confirmation Seth Graham Smith is working on it. Just want to remind everyone Seth never gave a straight answer when asked about whether he was directing the Flash on his AMA a while back.


I really like him — he’s amazing,” Snyder said of the actor. “We did a little screen test with him, and I was like, OK! … His screen test was way longer than his part in the movie.” (Snyder recently told the New York Daily News that he chose not to cast Grant Gustin, the star of The CW’s popular The Flash TV series, in the role because he didn’t think the actor “was a good fit” for the tone of the DC cinematic universe.)
Although the Flash barely appears in Batman v Superman — and his solo feature film, directed by Seth Grahame-Smith, isn’t scheduled to open until March 16, 2018 — Snyder still had to decide how his abilities would look cinematically. “I’ve had a great time working out the physics of the Flash and really talking a lot about it,” he said. “I’ll gift that all to Seth. We are his research and development department now. … I’m super excited about the evolution of that character and what they plan on doing with him.”

 

[ManWithNoName18]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwsbcW-d-E

Now I really hope Captain Boomerang survives SS and finds his way to the Rogues. Surprisingly I'm loving Jai's Boomerang.

 

[cleverusername8]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwsbcW-d-E

Now I really hope Captain Boomerang survives SS and finds his way to the Rogues. Surprisingly I'm loving Jai's Boomerang.

Me too!

I hope that they spin it such that the Rogues are already active in this universe and have been for a long time, but their weaponry is still primitive. I'm hoping that Boomerang is a "disgraced Rogue" who broke the code of conduct one too many times and got kicked to the curb by Cold which sent him into a tailspin of trouble that landed him in the Squad.

 

[catch22]

It would be difficult for the Rogues to have primitive weaponry while being a legitimate adversary to Barry. Especially a Barry which hasn't had his powers de-powered like in the tv show.

I don't want to see sloppy writing like in the television show. I want Barry to be ridiculously fast, and for the writer(s) to come up with inventive ways for why the rogues or whatever villains used are a threat.

 

[ManWithNoName18]

New Flash rumors by El Mayimbe
Concerning characters Smith wants in the movie

IRIS WEST: Iris West is described in the breakdown as having Christiane Amanpour’s brains and Carrie Bradshaw’s style. An overcaffinated doe. A reporter at The Central City Citizen. Actresses are currently testing for this part.

EOBARD THAWNE: Eobard Thawne is described in the breakdown as Central City’s Bill Gates. The smartest man in the room and he suffers from advanced degenerative disease like Stephen Hawking. Thawne is confined to a chair.

FRED CHYRE: Fred Chyre is described in the breakdown as a gruff detective who first meets Barry at the scene of a crime. Now they’re colleagues and the closest thing Barry has to a friend. Chryre is investigating the unusual death of someone at Thawne Laboratories

LEN SNART: Len Snart is described in the breakdown as being ex-military and turns out to be working for Thawne. Have a feeling he is the muscle the way Anatoli Knyazev (aka the KGBEAST) was the muscle for Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

JAY GARRICK: Jay Garrick is described in the breakdown as being a former Central University professor who was fired for fringe science, and was working on the speed force program. Supposedly his role is just a cameo.

 

[ManWithNoName18]

my biggest gripe is it seems like this rumor would imply that the Flash movie will have a similar story and twist that the TV show had for season one.

 

[UltimateMarvel]

There was a reddit rumor a few days ago about the future of the dceu saying that the Flash movie would use the Reverse Flash but with a new spin on it.

 

[guyisnotcool]

my biggest gripe is it seems like this rumor would imply that the Flash movie will have a similar story and twist that the TV show had for season one.

I'm guessing they figured this is what non comicbook readers are familiar with it and want it to be kept similar to that.

 

[WeatherWizard99]

There was a reddit rumor a few days ago about the future of the dceu saying that the Flash movie would use the Reverse Flash but with a new spin on it.

I guess you were (kinda) right

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/22/the-flash-movie-reportedly-casting-now-for-these-five-characters/

 

[dsfjr1190]

If Snart is killed off of LoT any time soon then we'll know why. Maybe thats why he's only had like 10 lines combined in the past two episodes.

 

[The Shape]

I guess you were (kinda) right

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/22/the-flash-movie-reportedly-casting-now-for-these-five-characters/

I don't buy this at all. Eobard Thawne being confined to a wheelchair like the TV series reveals this as being BS.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Not happy with the generic description for Snart, but I'm fine with Thawne being in a wheelchair. I think it works well for the character.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I have conflicted feelings about this. On one hand, I love The Flash, so it's cool we're getting a movie. But on the other hand, the TV series is already a great take on the character that manages to make adaptations in order to be accessible for a network TV audience while still being incredibly faithful. And when that TV show can be so faithful in capturing the full mad scope of the comics, from time travel to alternate universes to Gorilla Grodd and the Rogues, it's discouraging to read character breakdowns that suggest arbitrary changes to make things more "grounded" and more gritty street-level superhero 101. Hopefully I'm wrong though, it's still very early days - there's still time for "not is all as it seems" and for things to end up more true to the comics, which is of course what also happened with the TV show.

 

[Web-Head]

I do wonder if the Imogen Poots as Iris rumor is true

 

[UltimateMarvel]

I hope so. Imogen is so beautiful.

 

[BMCAABY]

I have conflicted feelings about this. On one hand, I love The Flash, so it's cool we're getting a movie. But on the other hand, the TV series is already a great take on the character that manages to make adaptations in order to be accessible for a network TV audience while still being incredibly faithful. And when that TV show can be so faithful in capturing the full mad scope of the comics, from time travel to alternate universes to Gorilla Grodd and the Rogues, it's discouraging to read character breakdowns that suggest arbitrary changes to make things more "grounded" and more gritty street-level superhero 101. Hopefully I'm wrong though, it's still very early days - there's still time for "not is all as it seems" and for things to end up more true to the comics, which is of course what also happened with the TV show.

But this is most likely false. There's no way any information on The Flash movie is going to be out. We don't have any big information on JL. Also castings for movies like this are super hush, they won't even give you what role you are auditioning for until you get it. If it is a non superhero role.
Also El Mayimbe aka heroic hollywood is always wrong.

 

[BMCAABY]

New Flash rumors by El Mayimbe
Concerning characters Smith wants in the movie

IRIS WEST: Iris West is described in the breakdown as having Christiane Amanpour’s brains and Carrie Bradshaw’s style. An overcaffinated doe. A reporter at The Central City Citizen. Actresses are currently testing for this part.

EOBARD THAWNE: Eobard Thawne is described in the breakdown as Central City’s Bill Gates. The smartest man in the room and he suffers from advanced degenerative disease like Stephen Hawking. Thawne is confined to a chair.

FRED CHYRE: Fred Chyre is described in the breakdown as a gruff detective who first meets Barry at the scene of a crime. Now they’re colleagues and the closest thing Barry has to a friend. Chryre is investigating the unusual death of someone at Thawne Laboratories

LEN SNART: Len Snart is described in the breakdown as being ex-military and turns out to be working for Thawne. Have a feeling he is the muscle the way Anatoli Knyazev (aka the KGBEAST) was the muscle for Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

JAY GARRICK: Jay Garrick is described in the breakdown as being a former Central University professor who was fired for fringe science, and was working on the speed force program. Supposedly his role is just a cameo.

I call BS... too soon and too much information to be leaked if true which is unrealistic. If it is true then it's probably a fake description.
WTF is Thawne Laboratories?.... Geoff Johns is involved, so we will get his true origin for sure. The only thing I bet will be same from the tv show is Eobard killing Barry's mother. Since they are following NEW 52.

 

[The Infernal]

I thought the movie was supposed to be the future we saw in BvS. This just sounds like someone rippefd off the TV show's first season.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I thought the movie was supposed to be the future we saw in BvS. This just sounds like someone rippefd off the TV show's first season.

They never use the real story/lines in casting breakdowns or auditions.

If these are the casting breakdowns, the fake story they're using is from Berlanti's Flash script, which was later restructured into season one of the TV show after Green Lantern underperformed. That's pretty much beat for beat that script aside from Jay Garrick's presence, that sounds more like Alan Scott's role in Berlanti's Green Lantern script. Maybe there was a later draft than the one that leaked and they re-purposed their use of the Golden Age character to The Flash.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

seth grahame smith officially leaves the Flash

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/flash-movie-loses-director-888994

 

[Fallen Angel]

The Flash' movie loses its director http://thr.cm/k3hevQ

The Flash movie has lost its director.


Seth Grahame-Smith is leaving the Warner Bros. project due to “creative differences,” THR has learned.


Grahame-Smith, the author and screenwriter of such works as Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, was to have made his directorial debut on the project that was based on the iconic DC Entertainment scarlet speedster super hero.
The project will retain Grahame-Smith’s script, which he wrote working off a treatment from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the Lego Movie duo that were once eyeing it as a possible directing vehicle.
Flash already has a release date – March 3, 2018 – and an actor who portrays the classic hero known as "the fastest man alive" – Ezra Miller, and there is plenty of time for the studio to find a director.
Miller’s Flash, aka. Barry Allen, was introduced in a cameo appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and is now shooting Justice League Part 1, which will be released in the summer of 2017.
Grahame-Smith still remains involved in other Warners project. He is a writer on the studio’s Lego Batman Movie and is working on Beetlejuice 2.

 

[Sawyer]

Probably a smart move. A first-timer on a project of this size is an unnecessary risk. And coming after BVS? They need to walk before they can run.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

I'm kinda scared to see who they get to replace him